Rhetoric and Composition/Modes of Writing

Overview

This section of the Wiki will investigate the several modes of writing. It will give helpful hints to instructors on what and how to teach these modes of writing with examples, past assignments, and prior exercises that helped fellow instructors effectively teach these modes.

Description

Description is the process by which a writer describes things he or she senses in order to evoke those same senses in the reader.

Narration

Narration is the act of telling a story in writing.

Exposition

Exposition is used to explain, describe, give information or inform.

Evaluation

Evaluation is a type of writing intended to critique a given subject according to a set of criteria.

Argumentation

Argumentation is meant to defend a certain point of view through writing.